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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

They engage trusted, local influencers to build credibility. It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years. Not surprisingly, some patterns emerge from among the most effective organizations.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.